Had more or less the same problems. I'm not overly fond of the love interest in book two or the pov that we are relegated to. Dunnett in the first four books - puts you in everyone's pov but the protagonist, which is an interesting but frustrating style. It's not until Pawn that you begin to get into Lymond's pov.
Like you I missed Christian who was my favorite character, we don't get another female character like that until Pawn. Can't say more without spoiling you.
Had the same fears...but I've learned skipping some of the action doesn't hurt. She feels the oddest need to write every nuance of the action. I think she's following the style of Dumas and other classical adventure novels, but reading it made me crazy at times. I read the rooftop sequence in a subway and a doctor's office, with frequent interruptions. Took me two months to read that book.
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Date: 2006-05-27 04:41 pm (UTC)Like you I missed Christian who was my favorite character, we don't get another female character like that until Pawn. Can't say more without spoiling you.
Had the same fears...but I've learned skipping some of the action doesn't hurt. She feels the oddest need to write every nuance of the action. I think she's following the style of Dumas and other classical adventure novels, but reading it made me crazy at times.
I read the rooftop sequence in a subway and a doctor's office, with frequent interruptions. Took me two months to read that book.